Quoted from doublestack:Depends how bad you want it! Although yes you could get some cheaper pins for your first to see if you and your family enjoy it. Thats what I did and will work my way up, I'm glad I started with projects as well for some experience on working on them.
I would not recommend starting with projects... Get one or two working ones before a project. If you do not know much about machines, the "project" is only fun if you can still retire to working machines.
FH is great, but as an only pin you may not find it deep enough, as for your first one you will play the deuce out of it. For the price, you could get a couple mode play WPCs.